Comments on: Sour candy almost as bad for your teeth as battery acidhttp://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/26975/sour-candy-almost-as-bad-for-your-teeth-as-battery-acid/
Eat, drink and be candidFri, 09 Dec 2016 19:25:54 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Dianehttp://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/26975/sour-candy-almost-as-bad-for-your-teeth-as-battery-acid/#comment-642887
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:50:17 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/?p=26975#comment-642887Hello to comment by Chemist…
Just make sure you brush your teeth BEFORE consuming the sour candies…
Makes it worse to brush while the acids are still attacking the enamel on your teeth:)

Your friendly Dental Hygienist

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Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:11:46 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/?p=26975#comment-456328YOU SO STUUUUPID!
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Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:28:18 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/?p=26975#comment-453398Patti, that brings up an interesting point. Ever eat some of that acidic candy and get a bump on your tongue…like an inflamed taste bud (or a cluster of them, or something)? I’ve gotten that many times. Maybe it’s a reaction to the acid.
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Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:13:26 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/?p=26975#comment-452747This chart can’t be right. With a pH that low, surely the candy would cause acid burns to your tongue and digestive tract. I’ve never heard of kids going to the ER from candy burns!
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Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:38:36 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping/?p=26975#comment-452180Darn! There’s no fat in hard candy, which is why I get it instead of chocolate!

First of all: battery acid has pH lower than one (meaning its even more acidic than indicated); my recollection is that battery acid in a car battery as pictured is 5 M sulfuric acid, meaning pH = -0.7.

Second: the pH scale works on “powers of 10”. So when the chart shows battery acid at pH=1, and the candies near pH=2, this indicates the battery acid is 10 TIMES MORE ACIDIC than the candies.

Of course, I already showed how the battery acid number is crap, so in reality, the battery acid is about 3 pH units more acidic, meaning one power of ten for each unit, meaning 10*10*10 = 1000 times as acidic in reality.

So when you read the cute little chart, the comparison is way off base, and you should NOT be tricked into thinking that eating candy is like eating battery acid.

The chart was likely created by someone either (a) ignorant or (b) wanting to manipulate you for political or cultural ends. It is a total lie. GO AHEAD AND EAT YOUR SOUR PATCH KIDS. Just brush your teeth afterwards, dummy. The sugar is worse for you than the citric acid coating. Jeesh.